Thanks a lot for this HowTo. I already found two HowTos for packaging at this forum, but more material I have - better.I already found that abiword was updated to 2.6.2, but thanks anyway.

Added:made .tlz and installed it on my mashine.Works significantly faster than 2.5.2The only problem for me is that it works not fast anough with .doc files for my mashine. I have pretty big library on my computer, and the books are long anough to crash abiword 2.5.2. 2.6.2 is steel trying to load one of them. I hope it will handle it, otherwise I have no access to my books:-(((

OOPS!I am sorry, I just was confused a little, because I saw two instructions how to build package with checkinstall...Now I carefully read the page you gave me and started over.I am almost done now.Sorry again.

added:I also read about cleaning up my system for packaging, but I have only 1 additional program installed - emelmfm2, so I hope in my case there is no need to do it.

installpkg abiword showed up into slapt-get --installed list, but there is no trace of it in start menu. Also it doesn't start from terminal.I do not know what I did wrong. It seemed that I completely followed instruction.Could someone help me, please?Thanks a lot.